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    The Carburetor Works On Bernoulli

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    The carburetor works using Bernoulli's principle, where increasing air speed through the carburetor causes a decrease in air pressure, drawing fuel into the air stream. The throttle controls air flow, not fuel directly. Special carburetor designs are needed for aircraft to prevent fuel starvation during inverted flight. Most production car engines use a single downdraft carburetor, while some use multiple carburetors. The main disadvantage of carburetors is that fuel flow does not scale proportionally with air flow at different speeds, requiring additional jets or movable jets to ensure proper fuel delivery across the engine's operating range.

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    The Carburetor Works On Bernoulli

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    The carburetor works using Bernoulli's principle, where increasing air speed through the carburetor causes a decrease in air pressure, drawing fuel into the air stream. The throttle controls air flow, not fuel directly. Special carburetor designs are needed for aircraft to prevent fuel starvation during inverted flight. Most production car engines use a single downdraft carburetor, while some use multiple carburetors. The main disadvantage of carburetors is that fuel flow does not scale proportionally with air flow at different speeds, requiring additional jets or movable jets to ensure proper fuel delivery across the engine's operating range.

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    The carburetor works using Bernoulli's principle, where increasing air speed through the carburetor causes a decrease in air pressure, drawing fuel into the air stream. The throttle controls air flow, not fuel directly. Special carburetor designs are needed for aircraft to prevent fuel starvation during inverted flight. Most production car engines use a single downdraft carburetor, while some use multiple carburetors. The main disadvantage of carburetors is that fuel flow does not scale proportionally with air flow at different speeds, requiring additional jets or movable jets to ensure proper fuel delivery across the engine's operating range.

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    The Carburetor Works On Bernoulli

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    The carburetor works using Bernoulli's principle, where increasing air speed through the carburetor causes a decrease in air pressure, drawing fuel into the air stream. The throttle controls air flow, not fuel directly. Special carburetor designs are needed for aircraft to prevent fuel starvation during inverted flight. Most production car engines use a single downdraft carburetor, while some use multiple carburetors. The main disadvantage of carburetors is that fuel flow does not scale proportionally with air flow at different speeds, requiring additional jets or movable jets to ensure proper fuel delivery across the engine's operating range.

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    The carburetor works on Bernoulli's principle: the faster air moves, the lower its static pressure, and

    the higher its dynamic pressure. The throttle (accelerator) linkage does not directly control the flow of liquid fuel. Instead, it actuates carburetor mechanisms which meter the flow of air being pulled into the engine. The speed of this flow, and therefore its pressure, determines the amount of fuel drawn into the airstream. When carburetors are used in aircraft with piston engines, special designs and features are needed to prevent fuel starvation during inverted flight. Later engines used an early form of fuel injection known as a pressure carburetor. Most production carbureted (as opposed to fuel-injected) engines have a single carburetor and a matching intake manifold that divides and transports the air fuel mixture to the intake valves, though some engines (like motorcycle engines) use multiple carburetors on split heads. Multiple carburetor engines were also common enhancements for modifying engines in the USA from the 1950s to mid-1960s, as well as during the following decade of high-performance muscle cars fueling different chambers of the engine's intake manifold. Older engines used updraft carburetors, where the air enters from below the carburetor and exits through the top. This had the advantage of never "flooding" the engine, as any liquid fuel droplets would fall out of the carburetor instead of into the intake manifold; it also lent itself to use of an oil bath air cleaner, where a pool of oil below a mesh element below the carburetor is sucked up into the mesh and the air is drawn through the oil-covered mesh; this was an effective system in a time when paper air filters did not exist. Beginning in the late 1930s, downdraft carburetors were the most popular type for automotive use in the United States. In Europe, the sidedraft carburetors replaced downdraft as free space in the engine bay decreased and the use of the SU-type carburetor (and similar units from other manufacturers) increased. Some small propeller-driven aircraft engines still use the updraft carburetor design. Outboard motor carburetors are typically sidedraft, because they must be stacked one on top of the other in order to feed the cylinders in a vertically oriented cylinder block.

    1979 Evinrude Type I marine sidedraft carburetor

    The main disadvantage of basing a carburetor's operation on Bernoulli's principle is that, being a fluid dynamic device, the pressure reduction in a venturi tends to be proportional to the square of the intake air speed. The fuel jets are much smaller and limited mainly by viscosity, so that the fuel flow tends to be proportional to the pressure difference. So jets sized for full power tend to starve the engine at lower speed and part throttle. Most commonly this has been corrected by using multiple jets. In SU and other movable jet carburetors, it was corrected by varying the jet size. For cold starting, a different principle was used, in multi-jet carburetors. A flow resisting valve called a choke, similar to the throttle valve, was placed upstream of the main jet to reduce the intake pressure and suck additional fuel out of the jets.
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